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Accommodating Variety in Iron-Responsive Elements: Crystal Structure of Transferrin Receptor 1 B IRE Bound to Iron Regulatory Protein 1 ⇑ William E FEBS Letters 586 (2012) 32–35 journal homepage: www.FEBSLetters.org Accommodating variety in iron-responsive elements: Crystal structure of transferrin receptor 1 B IRE bound to iron regulatory protein 1 ⇑ William E. Walden, Anna Selezneva, Karl Volz Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 60612, United States article info abstract Article history: Iron responsive elements (IREs) are short stem-loop structures found in several mRNAs encoding Received 3 October 2011 proteins involved in cellular iron metabolism. Iron regulatory proteins (IRPs) control iron homeo- Revised 14 November 2011 stasis through differential binding to the IREs, accommodating any sequence or structural varia- Accepted 15 November 2011 tions that the IREs may present. Here we report the structure of IRP1 in complex with transferrin Available online 24 November 2011 receptor 1 B (TfR B) IRE, and compare it to the complex with ferritin H (Ftn H) IRE. The two IREs Edited by Kaspar Locher are bound to IRP1 through nearly identical protein-RNA contacts, although their stem conforma- tions are significantly different. These results support the view that binding of different IREs with IRP1 depends both on protein and RNA conformational plasticity, adapting to RNA variation while Keywords: Iron metabolism retaining conserved protein-RNA contacts. Iron regulatory protein Ó 2011 Federation of European Biochemical Societies. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. Iron-responsive element Translation Structure 1. Introduction We have sought to determine the X-ray crystal structures of various IREs bound to IRP1 in an effort to determine how IRE vari- Cellular iron uptake, utilization, and storage are tightly controlled ety is accommodated in this protein:RNA complex. Here we report through the action of iron regulatory proteins 1 and 2 (IRP1 and the crystal structure of IRP1 in complex with transferrin receptor 1 IRP2). IRPs bind to iron-responsive elements (IREs) in the non-cod- B (TfR B) IRE, and compare it with the IRP1-bound Ftn H. ing regions of several mRNAs encoding proteins of iron metabolism, regulating message translation or stability in response to cellular 2. Materials and methods iron status [1,2]. To date, nine mRNAs have been confirmed to contain functional IREs [3]. They are all 30 nucleotide stem-loop 2.1. Preparation of protein, RNA, and complex structures with a terminal pseudotriloop (CAGUGX), a five base-pair upper helix, a mid-stem cytosine bulge (C8), and a variable lower The IRP1 protein was of the rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus) se- helix. The X-ray structure of ferritin H (Ftn H) IRE in complex with quence, with the double mutation C437S/C503S. These cysteine IRP1 revealed that binding occurs through two distinct protein:IRE substitutions, which do not affect IRE binding, were necessary to regions, primarily involving the conserved C8 and pseudotriloop [4]. suppress protein oxidation and improve homogeneity for single With the exception of the terminal loop and C8, there is little se- crystal growth [9]. The IRE RNA sequence can be considered to also quence conservation among IREs from different mRNAs [5]. Bulged be from rabbit (all known vertebrate TfR B IREs are the same, ex- nucleotides in the stem helices also contribute to IRE variety. These cept for Gallus gallus). A GC base pair was added to the bottom of variable features of IREs dictate that different IRE conformations be the IRE stem for greater stability. The RNA was purchased from accommodated in IRP:IRE complexes, perhaps through unique bind- Dharmacon. Prior to crystallization, the IRP1:TfR B IRE complex ing interactions between IRP and each IRE or the conformational was put in a sample buffer of 20 mM tris, pH 7.5, 5 mM NaCl, plasticity of the IRP. Such differences also are likely to contribute 5 mM DTT, and 0.1 M EDTA, at a concentration of 1.2 mg/ml, based to hierarchical IRP:IRE affinities, providing for differential control on RNA. of the IRE-containing mRNAs by IRPs [6–8]. 2.2. Crystallization, structure determination, and refinement Abbreviations: IRP, iron regulatory protein; IRE, iron response element; TfR, transferrin receptor 1B; Ftn, ferritin Tetragonal (P41212) crystals of the IRP1:TfR IRE B complex were ⇑ Corresponding author. Fax: +1 312 996 6415. grown in conditions of 0.7 M sodium citrate and 0.1 M HEPES, pH E-mail address: [email protected] (K. Volz). 0014-5793/$36.00 Ó 2011 Federation of European Biochemical Societies. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. doi:10.1016/j.febslet.2011.11.018 W.E. Walden et al. / FEBS Letters 586 (2012) 32–35 33 7.5 at 22 °C. The crystals grew as tetragonal bipyramids. Diffraction described [9]. The internally labelled IRE RNA probes were prepared data were obtained from one crystal at liquid nitrogen temperature with 32P-UTP as done previously [20], and the filter binding assays using X-rays of 1.0000 Å wavelength at the Southeast Regional Col- were performed accordingly. Binding constants were determined laborative Access Team (SER-CAT) 22-ID beamline at the Advanced by RNA saturation under equilibrium conditions. The protein con- Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory. The data were pro- centrations were held constant at 30 pM, and the RNA concentra- cessed and reduced with the program X-GEN [10]. The structure tions ranged from 2 to 250 pM. The experiments was done in was solved by molecular replacement with the program PHASER triplicate. Kd and Bmax values were calculate from non-linear curve [11] using the published structure of the IRP1:Ftn H IRE complex fits using GraphPad Prizm 4.0b software (GraphPad Software, Inc.). (PDB 2IPY, [4]), and has been refined to an Rf = 27.5% and Rw = 22.6% at 3.0 Å resolution (Table S1) using Phenix [12] and CNS [13]. The Ramachandran statistics (RAMPAGE, [14]) show 3. Results and discussion 90.7% of backbone angles in the favored region, 8.0% in the allowed, and 1.3% in the outlier regions (Fig. S1). The final structure contains Fig. 1A shows the predicted secondary structure of the TfR B IRE 95% of all atoms in the complex plus 146 solvent molecules. All in comparison with that of Ftn H. The two IREs share the canonical nucleotides of the IRE are present, as well as all residues of the IRE stem-loop structure but differ significantly in sequence and IRP1 molecule except for the N-terminal His-tag, and 40 residues composition at the inter-helical hinge. Crystals of the IRP1:TfR B in the three unresolved loops spanning residues 126–146, 500– IRE complex were obtained and the structure was solved by molec- 511, and 623–629. ular replacement as described in Materials and Methods. The IRP1:Ftn H IRE complex (old PDB ID 2IPY) was re-refined The IRP1 protein adopts the bilobal, L-shape conformation, with during this project after it was discovered that the two protein mol- domain positions and local loop conformations in the IRP1:TfR B ecules in the asymmetric unit (previously refined independently) IRE complex the same as seen earlier with the Ftn H IRE (Figs. S2 had very high non-crystallographic symmetry (NCS). Refinement and S3). The most striking differences between the two structures with tight NCS restraints on the protein gave a 3% reduction in Rf (fi- are in the stems of the bound IREs (Fig. 1B). The helices are hinged nal: Rf = 21.8% and Rw = 19.8%) and improved bond geometry for as rigid bodies, connected through a bend near base pair 7–25. The both protein and RNA (new PDB ID 3SNP). The two RNA molecules bend angle of the bound TfR B IRE is only 8°, while the IRP1-bound in the asymmetric unit did not obey the NCS. Ftn H IRE is kinked with a bend of 20° [4]1 plus an extra twist of 9°. The different bends in the bound IREs lead to changes of up to 2.3. Structural interpretation 8 Å in the approach of the IRE lower helix to domain 4 of IRP1 (Fig. 2). This slightly alters the set of protein:RNA contacts (Table Least squares superpositions of protein molecules were done 1). For example, Arg 688, which makes three H-bonds with the with LSQKAB of CCP4 [15] and COOT [16] using all available Ca Ftn H IRE lower helix is too far away from the lower helix of TfR atoms. Relative domain positions were analyzed with the program B IRE to make the same contacts. In fact, the side chain of Arg DynDom [17]. The overall conformation of the IRP1 protein in the 688 is poorly resolved in the IRP1:TfR B IRE complex. On the other two complexes is the same (Figs. S2 and S3). There are slight shifts hand, a potential for interaction of the lower helix with Arg 704 in IRP1 domains 3 and 4, but the differences are not measurably was gained in the complex. Thus, the overall number of potential significant, and the directions of displacement correlate with inter- bonds observed in the two complexes is essentially equivalent, molecular contacts, suggesting minimal packing effects. Unex- consistent with the relative binding affinities that we observed plainable localized differences in the protein occur in one area for these IREs with IRP1 (KD of 34 ± 16 pM for TfR B and involving residues 174–176, 205–207, and 539–542. This area is 45 ± 19 pM for Ftn H IREs; Fig. S6; see also [6,7,21]). near the 430 and 530 loops that are important for IRP1 conforma- The difference in stem-loop bend angles for the IRP1-bound TfR tional switching and ligand binding.
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